2008 albatross carcass

Vertical

Bottle caps and other plastic objects are visible inside the decomposed carcass of this Laysan albatross on Kure Atoll, which lies in a remote and virtually uninhabited region of the North Pacific.The bird probably mistook the plastics for food and ingested them while foraging for prey

Kure Vanderlip

Horizontal

Bottle caps and other plastic objects are visible inside the decomposed carcass of this Laysan albatross on Kure Atoll, which lies in a remote and virtually uninhabited region of the North Pacific.The bird probably mistook the plastics for food and ingested them while foraging for prey

Kure Vanderlip

Thumb

Bottle caps and other plastic objects are visible inside the decomposed carcass of this Laysan albatross on Kure Atoll, which lies in a remote and virtually uninhabited region of the North Pacific.The bird probably mistook the plastics for food and ingested them while foraging for prey